Indian Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal gestures as he speaks to supporters following his victory in the state assembly elections outside the party’s headquarters in New Delhi on February 10, 2015. Photo: AFP Indian Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal gestures as he speaks to supporters following his victory in the state assembly elections outside the party’s headquarters in New Delhi on February 10, 2015. Photo: AFP India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has admitted defeat in Delhi...

Britain’s biggest bank helped wealthy clients cheat the UK out of millions of pounds in tax, the BBC has learned. Panorama has seen thousands of accounts from HSBC’s private bank in Switzerland leaked by a whistleblower in 2007. [caption id="attachment_12869" align="alignleft" width="300"] HSBC helped clients evade tax and offered deals to help tax dodgers stay ahead of the law. Photo: BBC[/caption] They show bankers helped clients evade tax and offered deals to help tax dodgers stay ahead of the law. HSBC admitted that some indi...

Delhi went to the polls on Saturday with a record 67.21 per cent of the voters exercising their franchise. Voting for the 70-seat assembly closed at 6pm with voters turning out in large numbers between 3pm to the close.  As soon as the voting closed, various agencies which took surveys of exit polls started releasing their predictions. The following are the exit-poll predictions of four such agencies: C-Voter: AAP is expected to get 31 to 39 seats, BJP 27 to 35, Congress 2 to 4 ABP-Neilsen: AAP is expected to get 39, BJP 28 and Congress 3 Cicero: ...

US president Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 that sets up a battle with Republicans over programmes to boost the middle class that are funded by higher taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans. The budget foresees a $474 billion deficit, which is 2.5 percent of US gross domestic product. It projects deficits stabilising at that rate over a 10-year period, senior administration officials said. Obama’s budget fleshes out proposals from his State of the Union address a...

He ventured to Syria to tell the stories of lives torn apart by war. But in doing so, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto suffered his own gruesome fate—apparently becoming the latest foreigner to be decapitated by ISIS. A newly distributed video from ISIS appears to show the beheaded body of Goto. It came one week after a video surfaced showing him holding a photo of what appeared to be the corpse of his fellow Japanese captive, Haruna Yukawa. Just like ISIS’ previous beheading videos, th...